Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.

Johann von Goethe

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Rabbi H. Schachtel

There isnothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.

H. R. Schaffer

I look into their eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, 'I am going to bury you.

Seve Ballesteros

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success.

Orison Swett Marden

True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.

Hugh Blair

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Raymond Chandler

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Desiderius Erasmus

Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day.

Sanskrit Proverb

People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.

Sydney Harris

Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness -- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes, when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.

Saint Adela Rogers Johns

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

Margaret Cho

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.